westlake



4 W. B. WESTLAKE. MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL. No. 489,136.

7 Sheets-Sheet 1.

(No Model.)

$27,712) 7"; WEE/M? Patented Jan. 3

ZZZ/ 4 7SheetS-Sheet 2.

j WESTLAKE MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL.

(No Model.)

Patented Jan Mew)" M 25 ////6M 5 (No Model.) 7 Sheets-Sheet 3,

W.- B. WESTLAKE. MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL.

No. 489,136. Patented Jan. 3, 1893.

If r

(N0 Mode l.) r 7 Sheets-Sheet 4 W. B. WESTLAKE.

MAGHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL. No. 489,136. Patented Jan. 3, 1893.

ITZ/UG 71/507":

Wm myly (No Model.) 7. Sheets-Sheet '5.-

W. B. WESTLAKE. MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL.

No. 489,136. Patented Jan. 3,1893.

Inzre ntor:

wit-5191112036.

(No Model.) 7 Sheets-Sheet 6.

W. B. WESTLAKE. MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL.

No.'489,136. Patented Jan. 3,1893.

(No Model.)

W'. B. WESTLAKE'. I MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL.

7 Sheets-Sheet 7.

Patented Jan. 3, 1893.

izforzze 3J1 UNITED I STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM B.- WESTLAKE, OF SWANSEA, ENGLAND.

MAGl-HNERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OFART-IFICIALFUEL;

. srncrrrca'rrort forming part or Letters Patent N;489,136,dated January 3, 1893. Application filed November 27, 1891. Serial No. Q8349. (No model.) Patented in England January 3,1891, No- -166- To all whom it may, concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM BONFIELD WESTLAKE, a subject of the Queen of Great class of machinery Britain and Ireland, residing at 19 Northampton Place, Swansea, in the'county of Glamorgan, England, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for. the Manufacture of Artificial Fuel or other Like Material, (for which I have been granted Letters Patent in. Great Britain, No.

lowing is a specification. y

My improvementsrelaie particularly to that employed in molding small coal or other material into blocks of artificial: coal or briquettes of either material, and have for their first object the provisionof a simple and effective means by which said material can be compressed into blocks;.the cylinders, valve motion and other gearing, for applying necessary. pressure,

cur-ed orworking below the level of the'whole 'termittent motion; ers for the removal and. elevation otpress, showing the method table so that the latter and other gearing'for interchanged in case of.

working are easily repairs, alterations .&c., which are from time to time required. 7 s

, In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification,.Figure 1 represents an elevation of press showing the relative positions of cylinders- I and stand J, coupling P, buflerhead O and themold table K, also the coupling and guide E, and crank-shaft F.

combined pan Tand pressing plate S; also the poles F which gearing into teeth F cast underthe mold table K give the latter an inof'the block. Fig. 3 is an of securing plates A and B touprights G, by suitable poles, and also the bolts amassing through the bottom ofstand I and secured at .tionjthrough A the top and bottom by nuts. Fig. 4 is a sec- B Fig. 2, and shows the mold table K resting on the capstan q (round which it revolves) through the top ofwhich passes a: solid-pin- P securing it to the pressing plate the mold K, with ma- S: also the stamp o, in

plate S proterialbetwccn it and the pressing dated January 3, 1891,) of'wnich the folbeing severally fixed, se-- lugs cast upon it, which also the position of kick-.

vious to compression by admission of steam belowpiston Z, raising bufier-head 0.! Fig. 5 is a section through G D, Fig, 4 and gives detailsofi valve motion necessary to give steam admittance and exhaust for raising and lowering the piston, piston rod and butter-head 0; also plan of thelug I, cast on bottom flange of. stand 3' through which the bolt V'passes."

Fig. 6 is a sectional view giving details of the devices for coupling thetwo halves A A by. angle pieces 0 C and by the coupling E. Fig.

7 is an enlarged section through the cylinder and stand showingthe bufier M, hollow p'ot N, and bufier block NC.

In carrying my invention into efiect, l (first) cast the top and bottom plates A A, B B in passing through anglepieces O O, D 'D, and the coupling device. E, shown more particularly in Figs. 1 and 6. This coupling device is a cast-iron, brass-hushed recessed coupling whichis-securely bolted to the two halves A- A, and passesthrough an accurately bored space left in the two halves, this coupling also forms a guide for the upright crank shaft F which passes through K. K

(S econd.) Erect and secure the top and bolttomp'la'tes A and B to a series (preferably) of upright cast or wrought .iron. plates G by strong bolts particularly as shown in'Fig'. 3.

(Third.) Place a cylinder and stand J betweenthe top and bottom plates A and B; which is truly turned at bottom and fits ac:

curately over and upon chipping strips .1 J

(shown in Fig. 6.) This stand I has strong are accurately bored or drilled to-takc the upright stay bolts U, which pass through them, also through the top and bottom plates A and B, to which the said bolts are made firm by nuts U U thus securing a good foundation for pressing contained within itself.

buficr M at its lower end to strike on a cast iron'blockmontainedin a hollow pot N, which same pot N, is secured to a bufierhead 0, by a heavy flange couplingP. This butler-head O is raised against the stampo' (Fourth) Provide-the piston rod L with a ,(Fig. .4) rising and falling in the mold K 6 two halves and seeurelyfasten them by bolts of the mold table K (Fig.2) and traveling neaththe bed-plate A, then passing through Q means of a belt round thepulleys Y (Fig. 5)

the center of mold table K, which revolves round it; the pin P passing through the hollow "capstan q, holding down the pressing plate S on the top of the mold table, K. (Sixth) Provide a combined pan T, and pressing plate S preferably by-bolting the pressing plate S to the pan T and securing it against upward pressure bystay bolts U, U, passing through it to the top/plate A.

(Seventh) Work the valve V by an eccentrio V, on the vertical crankshaft F which gives motion to the eccentric V and'pawls W. I will now proceed to describe the method of working of the said improved machinery or apparatus for the moldingof artificial-fuel or other materials. 1 The crown wheel-Z and the shaft F revolve by means of a bevel wheel Y, keyed to the driving shaft Y,-ivhich is again driven by and from the main pulleys. The; revolution of F causes the eccentric V to workbetween guides X X and to open and close the steam and exhaust ports within the valve chest V, causing the piston'l, piston rod'L and buffer-head to rise and fall at prescribed intervals.

The mold tables K receive their intermit tent motion in the following mannerz-The crank F on the shaft F (Figs. 1 and 2) has oneend of each of the pawls F, F secured to it, the other ends of F being pointed. to fit into the teeth F of the mold table. On the revolution of the crank shaft each pawl i831 ternately fixed into the tooth F which causes the-mold table to revolve a space, corresponding to the distance between the centers of molds K the said by a weight K on the further revolution of the crank F. I The kickers for the removal of each fuel block after completion of each block, are actuated from the shaft'F by'a cam f falls in the. molds, K which come inside the pan T; on the revo- F (Fig. 2). a The material lution of the mold table K, the mold and stamp come directly under the pressing plate S (asshewn in Fig. a) when steam, is admitted below theipiston Z, raising the lander-head o, againstthe stamp 0, compressing the material against the plateS;,-on the further revolutionof themold table the stamp o is'gradually raised by passing up thejinclined sur-' face K until the top of stampison a'level with the top of mold table K,when the block. is removed by the kicker F (Figs. 2 and 3} gearing is so arranged that two or more molds "the teeth of the mold table and pawls being brought backblock being removed between each intermittent movement of mold table.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is tobe performed, I declare that'what I claim is 1. In combination the mold, tables K arranged adjacent to each other and supported to revolve and having teeth F the shaftextending between the tables and having a crank portion F, the pawl arms F extending on'opposite sides of the shaft and engaging the compressing mechanism substantially as described.

2. In combination the revolving mold table having-a'series of molds, the pressing plate arranged at one point in the movement of the table and over themolds, the said plate being stationary with relation tothe revolving table, the stamp operating in the mold and the means for operating the said stamp While the mold is below the pressure plate, said means operating on the end of the stamp op posite to the pressure-plate, substantially as described. 7

3. In combination the revolving mold ta- 'ble carrying a series of molds, the stationary pressure plate to cover one of said molds and arranged over the table, the stamp in the molds and the butter head 0, arranged-at onepointin the movementof the table to en- 1 r gage the Iowa 3- end of the stamp andpress the samenpward toward the pressing plate the means for moving the table forward step by step. andthe means for continuing the upwardmovement'of the stamps as the table moves forward-and carries the mold from below thepressing plate.

.4. In combination, the vertical shaft, the revolving mold table on each side of the same, the teeth on. said tables the pawl connections from the shaft to each table to give the same step by step movement, the kicker arms also operated from the vertical shaft, said kicker arms extending over the mold table on each side of the shaft and the connections from the shaft to the-kicker arms substantiallyas described.

5. Incombination, the vertical shaft, the rotary table, carrying the molds, the pressing platelocated over the table and to cover one of the molds the piston and butter head arranged on the underside of the table below the pressing plate, the steam valve,'and the means for operating the table and the steam valve consisting of the pawl connections from the table to the shaft and the co centric and rod connections from the said shaft to the valve,

6.- In apparatus for pressing artificial fuel or other material the combined recessed bush and guideE forming a portion of the coupling and it will be readily understood that the devices joining the two halves of Aand B,

I v 'substantially as described. are filling one block compressing and one 7. In apparatus for pressing artificial fuel substantially as described.

or other material, the hollow pot N, Figs. 4 revolving table as is found necessary for the a and 7 for the purpose of receiving a buEer purpose as hereinbefore described.

block such as N; substantially as described. W. B. WESTLAKE.

S. In apparatus for, pressing artificial fuel Witnesses: 5 or other material, the hollow capstan q, cou- JOHN W. ADAMS, taining a solid pin R holding the pressing I. E. WILLIAMS,

plate down as near to, and as far from the Both of 60 St. Helens AvenuaJ S'wansea. 

